Posts Tagged ‘mercedes sl 600’

An environment friendly engineer in Texas has decided to make his Mercedes SL 600 green and clean for some odd reason. Honestly, he should just buy an electric car, but his name is Bernie Towns, and he has turned his 2007 SL600 Mercedes into a compressed natural gas (CNG) fueled sports car. He hopes that it will be able to break the record for the fastest natural gas car around. Bernie has partnered with the Chicago tuning company Speedriven, who have pushed 800 bhp and more than 1,000 ft-lbs of torque out of the Mercedes SL. Breaking the record will difficult, since the title is currently held by the Hohenester Audi A4 that was able to reach 364.6 km/h in 2009 with 700 bhp.

Everyone knows that rich arabian princes love expensive cars and if they like a particular car that will like to make it unique in every detail. This car belongs to price Al Waleed from Saudi Arabia and he decided to mix two things he likes: Mercedes cars and diamonds. This SL 600 is fully covered with diamonds and it costs $4.8 million. If you want to touch this lovely car you will have to pay $1,000 but even though the price is extreme for people that want to feel this lovely car i don’t think the price will recover the money he invested. At least he’s more popular now on autoblogs after modifying a car like this one. Read More →